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Goal Management in Organizations

Organizationally, goal management consists of the process of recognizing or inferring goals of individual team-members, abandoning no longer relevant goals, identifying and resolving conflicts among goals, and prioritizing goals consistently for optimal team-collaboration and effective operations.

For any successful commercial system, it means deriving profits by making the best quality of goods or the best quality of services available to the end-user (customer) at the best possible cost. Goal management includes:

  • Assessment and dissolution of non-rational blocks to success
  • Time management
  • Frequent reconsideration (consistency checks)
  • Feasibility checks
  • Adjusting milestones and main-goal targets

Morten Lind and J.Rasmussen distinguish three fundamental categories of goals related to technological system management:

  1. Production goal
  2. Safety goal
  3. Economy goal

An organizational goal-management solution ensures that individual employee goals and objectives align with the vision and strategic goals of the entire organization. Goal-management provides organizations with a mechanism to effectively communicate corporate goals and strategic objectives to each person across the entire organization. The key consists of having it all emanate from a pivotal source and providing each person with a clear, consistent organizational-goal message. With goal-management, every employee understands how their efforts contribute to an enterprise's success.

An example of goal types in business management:

  • Consumer goals: this refers to supplying a product or service that the market/consumer wants
  • Product goals: this refers to supplying a product outstanding compared to other products—perhaps due to the likes of quality, design, reliability and novelty
  • Operational goals: this refers to running the organization in such a way as to make the best use of management skills, technology and resources
  • Secondary goals: this refers to goals which an organization does not regard as priorities

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